| molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of neotropical piping guans (aves: galliformes): pipile bonaparte, 1856 is synonym of aburria reichenbach, 1853. | the cracidae are neotropical galliform birds with 11 genera currently recognized. to investigate the questioned validity of pipile bonaparte, 1856 and the monotypic aburria reichenbach, 1853 as separate genera, we gathered data from 2727 bp of mitochondrial dna (cytochrome b, nd2 and control region) and 151 osteological characters. our phylogenetic analyses of dna sequences indicated that aburria aburri is embedded within pipile. also, genetic distances between aburria and any pipile species are ... | 2005 | 15878132 |